The use of time-variant EEG Granger causality for inspecting directed interdependencies of neural assemblies

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-44

  Hesse, Wolfram ^a   Möller, Eva ^a   Arnold, Matthias ^a   Schack, Bärbel ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Directed interactions; EEG; Granger causality; Multivariate autoregressive models; Recursive least square procedure; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037473234     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00366-7     Document Type: Article

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